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Thursday, June 16, 2011

A Little Wiki Today

Took a little time today to learn how to update information on Wikipedia about my distant relative, Harry Pierpont. Harry has been one of my favorite research subjects of late.

As I've blogged about before, it was Harry's page on Wikipedia that first led me to realize we may have a genealogical connection. Since then I've enjoyed researching articles about his robberies and life of crime. Just this week I managed to locate a few new articles for future Black Sheep Sunday posts.

Because his page was lacking documentation, I decided to add sections on his Execution and Burial. Using information such as his death certificate from FamilySearch site and his tombstone photo at FindAGrave, I added source citations to these sections.

Though I've had an account at Wikipedia for several years, I had never used the account to add information to a page or to create on of my own. The process was relatively easy to do, and I hope to add sections in the future to Harry's page and update information about his Indiana bank robberies.

Update (6/17): Had so much fun that before bed, continued to update Harry's page and added information about three of his early robberies.